eBay integration
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Allowing for choice of quantity exported to ebay is good. Quantity on ebay, in CS-Cart and total in both channels should be available. It would also be good if inventory could be shifted from channel to channel if desired. All simple arithmetic on one extra variable. If no stock in CS-Cart channel but some in eBay, then attempt to purchase in CS-Cart could result in temporarily unavailable message with optional link link to ebay.

At the moment we plan the following behavior:

Each time a customer places an order in your CS-Cart store the Ebay add-on will Revise item at Ebay and decrease it amount.

Each time you import orders from Ebay the quantity of bought products will be decreased.

Something else that needs added badly, is the ability to select which countries you want to sell to. Right now it automatically defaults to just the country you reside in. But I also sell to Canada, and about half my business comes from there. So as is, I lose about 50% of my customer base when I decide to use the eBay addon over listing it manually on ebay.

Hi, here is the list of improvements in Ebay add-on we are working at:

Configuration & Management:

Ability to assign Ebay category with CS-Cart category - so in one template there could be products from different ebay categories (at the moment one template can export products only to one Ebay category)

Each template will have a link to all products assigned to it. We will add Ebay template to products search in Admin area.

We will add ability to add products to template using mass-editing feature and "Add Products" picker on the template page.

We will add new field "Ebay price" - so you will be able to set different product price for Ebay.

All Ebay fields for the product (price, name, description) could be updated with mass-editing and Import/Export.

Export:

You will be able to export a certain products or all the products from a template.

On the manage products list - there will be a new column Ebay status for the products that were exported to Ebay.

The Error log will have all the details about export. After each export you will get the notice how many products were exported successfully, how many products had warning or errors.

Each time a customer places an order in your CS-Cart store the Ebay add-on will Revise item at Ebay and decrease it amount.Each time you import orders from Ebay the quantity of bought products will be decreased.

What happens to the Ebay item when the CS-Cart store quantity goes from 1 to 0? Does it end the Ebay item?

Also, on product edit in Admin we get an error saying the image doesn't exist, path to image is full host server path, not web server path relative to the apache server directory. Is this an apache/php config issue?

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Also, on product edit in Admin we get an error saying the image doesn't exist, path to image is full host server path, not web server path relative to the apache server directory. Is this an apache/php config issue?

Hello, and please excuse me for the late reply.

The product export works as follows:
1. The image is uploaded to the service, and the link to the image is stored.
2. The product is exported, and the link to the image is attached to the product.

We did some testing and found the following possible reasons for the problem:
1. The store you export products from must be accessible from the Internet for eBay to be able to reach it. E.g., the error may appear if you have a local installation of CS-Cart accessible through localhost.
2. The image of the product may not have been uploaded to CS-Cart properly. The export should work fine if the image has been uploaded without errors, or if the product has no image at all. But if the image file is corrupted, it may lead to the problem you described.
3. It could be a eBay problem: this error appeared several times during testing, but it resolved itself after a while. In that case you may want to check if the problem is still there.
4. If these instructions didn't help, please contact CS-Cart support through Customer Help Desk.

you can now assign eBay categories to the categories of your store—that way you can use one eBay template to export products from multiple categories;

you can set separate product prices and descriptions for eBay;

you can assign products to the eBay template on the eBay template editing page

you can change eBay-related parameters in bulk and export them to a .csv file.

Other improvements include detailed error messages with the links to export logs, and interface improvements. The updated addon is also available as an upgrade package for CS-Cart 4.3.4, but we managed to fix a couple of bugs in the 4.3.5 version.

you can now assign eBay categories to the categories of your store—that way you can use one eBay template to export products from multiple categories;

you can set separate product prices and descriptions for eBay;

you can assign products to the eBay template on the eBay template editing page

you can change eBay-related parameters in bulk and export them to a .csv file.

Other improvements include detailed error messages with the links to export logs, and interface improvements. The updated addon is also available as an upgrade package for CS-Cart 4.3.4, but we managed to fix a couple of bugs in the 4.3.5 version.

sounds like there is an opportunity for someone to write a decent eBay addon for cs-cart and sell it. I have installed the addon and having mixed results which are chewing up too much time. I must say as the versions of CS-CART increase, my experiences with it are improving. But after install the eBay addon, I am getting those old CS-CART feelings again

I have no problem paying for a product, but it just looks bad for you guys when you release it too early and its proven to be a waste of money for us (for now).. Fingers crossed you update it before my upgrade subscription runs out.

Based on the infrequency of your updates, I really don't think your license model is the best one for users.. maybe we should pay based on the number of updates that are released in the previous year